Collaboration, not combat

Claire Westwood

Collaboration, not combat

Claire Westwood

Notice board

Retirement can be a new beginning

Lynne Wallis

Student life - First interview success

Elspeth Raisbeck

Psychological support

Alison Atkinson

Assessment and management of patients with hypothyroidism

Maggie Carson

Assessment and management of patients with hypothyroidism

Maggie Carson

Interpretation of competence in student assessment

Simon Cassidy

Avoiding plagiarism in academic writing

Irene Anderson

Assault compensation battle was a long drawn out affair

Grace Williamson

Chance to celebrate nursing research at RCN conference

Ann McMahon, Dave O’Carroll

Greater clarity about resuscitation is needed

Philip Woodrow

Sanitise with bleach sprays rather than antibacterials

Jennifer Davidge

Letter

I take issue with the use of the term ‘plastic gloves’

Gary Porter-Jones

Post-discharge stroke care could be better structured

Gareth Critchfield

Patient’s death made me reflect on observations

Dignity campaign should take a look at outpatients

Alan Halliday

Elderspeak is not the way to talk to patients, however well intentioned

Jayne Thomas

Webwise

Marc Cornock

In the Garden – In Pictures

Gary Blatch

In the Garden – In Pictures

Gary Blatch

Prescribing in diabetes

Jane Bridges

The Handbook for Advanced Primary Care Nurses

Lydia Burke

Prescribing in Diabetes

Jane Bridges

The Handbook for Advanced Primary Care Nurses

Lydia Burke

Standard life - Daniel Allen looks forward to a year of cracking some old chestnuts

Daniel Allen

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Readers panel - Darling, don't call me that

Frances Wheatley, Julie Clarke, Paul Jebb, Sue Szczepanska, Kent

Starting out Givingcareinapatient’shome demandsaspecialsensitivity

Sarah Downie

Lady muck

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Recession reality bites

James Buchan

Voices - Linda Thomas urges nurses to keep banging on about the health risks of smoking

Linda Thomas

Care for the whole city

Stephanie Northen

Meet the next generation

Alison Whyte

Identifying impetigo

Lynne Pearce

Many older people do not have regular dental check-ups

Mortality rate higher in depressed people with heart failure

Subfractions of white cells associated with body mass and fitness

Exercise during pregnancy reduces cardiovascular risk

Nurses in florence nightingale’s day worked ‘until they dropped’

Keith Hurst

More hot topics for 2009

This year’s challenge:maintaining quality care under a tight budget

Peter Carter

The NMC clarifies position for those who prescribe remotely

‘Remarkable’ improvements in nursing research

Collection of ethnicity data delayed

Central key cabinet saves hours each day

Disappointment as review body rejects calls to reopen pay talks

Colin Parish

Uniform change in scotland

Health board drops out of generic community health nurse pilot

Jennifer Trueland

News in brief

Nice updates guidance on acute colitis

RCN debates consent for organ donation

Sickness leaves NHS short staffed and A&E units busier than ever

Colin Parish

Carter cheers staff with Christmas visit

Drugs equality for all, argues RCN

New year’s honours list

Call for end of life funding to be monitored for benefits

Fifty nurses help avert a Christmas crisis

Shaky start to year for NMC as best candidate declines top job

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Right care, right at the end

Jean Gray